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Jul 12, 2021 · Italy coach Roberto Mancini with the trophy after winning Euro 2020 at Wembley. Italy were worthy winners. After 34 games unbeaten, how could they not be? It caps an astonishing turnaround...
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The Commission took the role that a standard coach would currently play. Since the 1960s, the national team has been controlled by a manager or head coach, sometimes supported by a technical director.
Manager (s)Italy Career2023– present2018–202320182016–2017Jul 11, 2021 · A dining table was set up along the bend of the running track that encircles the pitch dedicated to double World Cup-winning coach Vittorio Pozzo, whose unbeaten record Mancini would surpass...
The Commission took the role that a standard coach would currently play. Ever since 1967, the national team has been controlled only by the coach. For this reason, the coach of the Italy national team is still called Technical Commissioner (Italian: commissario tecnico) or CT.
- Gianluigi Donnarumma, Goalkeeper
- Giovanni Di Lorenzo, right-back
- Leonardo Bonucci, centre-back
- Giorgio Chiellini, centre-back
- Emerson, left-back
- Nicolò Barella, Midfielder
- Jorginho, Midfielder
- Marco Verratti, Midfielder
- Federico Chiesa, Forward
- Ciro Immobile, Forward
Few footballers ever make it to the very top. Fewer still make their debuts for AC Milan against Real Madrid at age 16. And then save a penalty from Toni Kroos. Yet that is precisely what Donnarumma did in summer 2015. Since then he has made 215 Serie A appearances, earned 33 caps for Italy and been named Player of the Tournament in their UEFA EURO...
As a youngster Di Lorenzo played as a striker, tormenting teams around his native Tuscany and earning the nickname 'Batigol' after ex-Fiorentina goal-machine Gabriel Batistuta. Nevertheless, he only made his Serie A bow with Empoli in 2018 at age 24. In 2020 he named his first daughter Azzurra as a nod to the prevalent colour in his career: blue. "...
Just the 11th player to have represented Italian giants Juventus, Inter and Milan, Bonucci forms part of a select group including the likes of Christian Vieri, Andrea Pirlo and Zlatan Ibrahimović. Not only that, but his partnership with Giorgio Chiellini is one of the most feared by strikers around the world. "I think I know Bonucci better than I k...
Dubbed 'King Kong' for his chest-thumping goal celebrations, Chiellini has the brains to match the brawn: in 2017 he graduated cum laude from the University of Turin's School of Management and Economics with a Master's degree in Business Administration. When José Mourinho said that he could teach the art of defending at Harvard, the 36-year-old rep...
Emerson's first sport was swimming and he also played futsal until he was 14. Earmarked as Italy's first-choice left-back until struggling for playing time at Chelsea, he had to look on as Leonardo Spinazzola won plaudits in his position up to the quarter-finals. Still, the 26-year-old was ready when required to step in and replace his injured team...
Barella became the youngest captain in Cagliari's history when wearing the armband on 17 December 2017, aged 20 years, ten months and nine days. A father of three daughters despite being just 24, Barella is a huge NBA fan. His first basketball jersey was an Allen Iverson one. "Watching a player with his [relatively small] stature dominating among g...
The brains of the Italy midfield, Jorginho owes much of his talent to his mother. "She used to play football, so I learned a lot from her," he recalled of his boyhood in Brazil. "She would take me to the beach with a ball and I would spend the whole afternoon doing technical work in the sand." When he moved to Italy as a 15-year-old to join the Ver...
The only player in the squad with no Serie A career appearances, Verratti initially feared he would miss a second consecutive EURO because of injury. However, Roberto Mancini waited patiently for the energetic Paris midfielder and brought him back into the team despite Manuel Locatelli shining in his place. Verratti's showings against Belgium and S...
The son of ex-Italy forward Enrico Chiesa, Federico started out at Fiorentina, competing for a place in the side with Cristian Tello, a player he previously only knew from playing video games. "I always used to pick him in my team; he was so fast," Chiesa said of the former Barcelona attacker. After Chiesa's goals against Austria and Spainat EURO 2...
Immobile joined Juventus in 2008 but it wasn't until he played under Zdeněk Zeman at Pescara in 2011/12 that his goalscoring talent truly flourished: he netted 28 times in Serie B in a team also containing Verratti and Lorenzo Insigne. The 2019/20 European Golden Shoe winner – a passionate fisherman – had a brilliant group stage, scoring against Tu...
In 2020, the Italian national team won the Euros. The team went through the group without allowing a single goal, while scoring seven. Both defence and attack were dialled in. After beating Spain on penalties in the semi final, they’d once again take the game to penalties in the final.
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Jul 2, 2021 · Which Italian soccer team is the best? Better not to get into this one either. But if we go by Serie A (the top professional league competition) championship wins, Juventus comes first, followed by Inter and Milan. Can Italy win the UEFA European Championships 2020-2021? If you ask Italy’s coach Roberto Mancini, yes, they can.
